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England finally break their duck

Author: Sir David Smith
Date: 21/03/2009

England won the first one-day international against West Indies on the Duckworth-Lewis method in farcical circumstances.

England finally triumphed when West Indies coach John Dyson called his side in for bad light, after thinking his side were ahead on the Duckworth-Lewis method.

However, he had miscalculated and it was the tourists who prevailed by one run as the cricket betting favourites won the first match on their tour of the Caribbean.

Paul Collingwood (69) and Owais Shah (62) helped England reach 270-7 in their 50 overs before Stuart Broad took three wickets as the West Indies were restricted to 244-7 with 22 balls of their innings left.

Elsewhere, Harbhajan Singh took six wickets as India beat New Zealand by ten wickets in the first Test in Hamilton.

India had led by 241 runs after the first innings and, despite a 76-run stand for the ninth wicket between Brendon McCullum and Iain O'Brien, the Black Caps made only 279 in their second innings, setting their opponents a victory target of just 39 which they eased to.

Centuries by Jacques Kallis and Ashwell Prince helped South Africa reach 404-3 on day two of the third Test against Australia.

In rugby league, St Helens ended Leeds' unbeaten start to the new Super League season by beating the Rhinos 26-18.

Leeds centre Keith Senior became only the second player to score tries in all 14 seasons of Super League but Leon Pryce was the Saints' star, grabbing his side's third try on his 100th appearance for the club.

At the KC Stadium, Brent Sherwin's 77th-minute drop goal ended Hull's 100 per cent start to the season as Castleford Tigers won 19-18.

Richard Agar's side scored four tries through the Horne brothers, Richard and Graeme, to lead 18-12.

But Ryan McGoldrick's try, coupled with Sherwin's drop goal, earned the visitors an impressive victory, their fourth of the campaign.

At the JJB Stadium, Sam Tomkins and Shaun Ainscough both scored two tries as Wigan Warriors eased to a 38-12 win against struggling Salford City Reds.

In tennis, Andy Roddick caused a major upset by beating defending champion Novak Djokovic 6-3 6-2 in the Indian Wells Masters 1000 quarter-finals.

The American will face Rafael Nadal in the last four after the world number one saw off Juan Martin del Potro 6-2 6-4.

The women's final will be between Russia's Vera Zvonareva and Serbia's Ana Ivanovic.

Fourth seed Zvonareva beat her doubles partner Victoria Azarenka 6-3 6-3, while Ivanovic saw off 17-year-old Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-2 6-3.

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